It would be great if conky could allow user patches. I've confirmed in my local overlay that it's simply a matter of adding epatch_user at the end of the src_prepare function in the ebuild. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Add a patch in /etc/portage/patches/app-admin/conky/ 2. Try to compile conky Actual Results: Patch is not picked up by portage. Expected Results: Portage should include the patch.
+ 28 Sep 2013; Daniel Pielmeier <billie@gentoo.org> conky-1.9.0-r2.ebuild: + Add epatch_user. This fixes bug #478482. I have added epatch_user support to conky. Please test and reopen if there are any problems with the implementation.